Combined truck and bag-holder



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No. 330,684. Patented Nov. 17, 1885.

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COMBINED TRUCK AND BAG HOLDER.

No. 330,684. Patented-Nov. 17, 1885.

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NrT D STATES ATENT Erica ALFRED o. DODGE, OF CHARLOTTE, MICHIGAN.

COMBINED TRUCK AND BAG-HOLDER.

ESPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 330,684, dated November 17, 1885.

Application filed July 30, 1885; Serial No. 173,065. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED C. DODGE. a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Charlotte, in the county of Eaton and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Trucks and Bag-Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to improvements in combined trucks and bag-holders, having for its objects to prevent the lodgment upon the truck of any falling grain during the filling of the bags or sacks, and the removal of the hold ing device from the truck when the latter is to be used as such; and the invention therefore consists of the combinations of parts, including their construction, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention, showing the truck standing endwise and the clasp in position and holding a bag or sack. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevationof the same with the frames of the clasp separated as required in introducing the upper edge of the bag or sack between them. Fig. 3 is also a side elevation thereof, showing the clasp-frames swung back out of the way in dotted lines and partially swung back in full lines for tying the mouth of the filled sack or bag; and Fig. 4. is a front elevation of my invention.

In the embodiment of my invention I employ a truck, A, with its sides a a preferably formed or made in a single piece, being bent into a U shape. The connected ends of said piece are fastened to bolsters of the wheelaxle, while the curved connecting cross-piece thereof forms a convenient means at the outer end of the truck for grasping the same with the hands in manipulating or moving the truck. Centrally of the sides a a, and connected thereto by cross bars or braces a, is disposed a longitudinal bar, 13, with one end secured also upon a bolster at the center of the wheel-axle, and the other end secured to the upper curved connecting cross-piece of the sides, about midway thereof, being preferably mortised into the latter, as shown at a, Fig. 2.

C is a metallic base or plate bolted at its inner edge to the upper surfaces of the sides a and central bar, B, near the outer or lower ends of the said sides and bar. This plate or base is curved or otherwise extended at its outer end about at right angles to its other portion, the said curved or extended portion being about vertical when the truck is in a horizontal or approximate position, and being adapted to rest upon the ground or other surface when the truck is standing or disposed endwise. In the latter position it serves as a base upon which the bottomof the bag or sack rests as the latter is filled. The base or plate C consequently, in order to prevent the lodgment thereon of any falling grain as the bag or sack is being filled, is provided throughout with enlarged apertures,or made'in skeleton form, as shown in Fig. 4.

The extreme outer edge of the plate or base C may be elaborately curved or otherwise con figurated to render it ornamental, as well as light, without im pairing the requisite strength or resistance thereof.

D D are two metallic frames jointly forming a clasp, one being larger than and fitting over the other, and preferably made of flat or hoop metal and of substantially rectangular contour. They are centrally connected, the lower one, D, rigidly to an upright plate, I), bolted or screwed to a bar, 22, hinged or pivoted to a slide, b movable or adjustable by a set or holding nut, d, and screw (1 working in an elongated slot, 6, of the bar B, and passed through an aperture in the slide 12*.

- The frame D is braced by stiff straps or pieces of the same metal f, secured to said frame near its ends, and to the ends of a crosspieoe, g, secured to and preferably mortised into the free end of the hinged or pivoted bar 12, and at the center to the upright plate b. The bar b is offset at its point of connection with the plate I), in order to leave a recess or space, h, immediately behind or in rear of the frame D, to provide for the reception at that point of the upper turned-over edge of the sack or bag. The other or' upper frame, D, is provided with ears #3 at its rear side in the center, which ears may be formed thereon at theends of the said frame, asin the present instance, and by means of which ears and pivots passed through the latter and the pivoted or hinged bar 5 the frame D is pivotally connected to said bar 12, which pivotal point of connection is so related to the point of connection of the fixed frame D with said bar that the frame D, which is the larger, may fit down around the frame D. This arrangement enables, when the upper edge of the sack or bag is turned over, (being passed from the inside,) the upper edge of the lower frame, D, and when the other or upper frame, D, is shut down upon the turned-over edge of the bag or sack, the securing of the sack or bag between said frames, the latter thus acting as a clasp. The upper frame, D, has an eye, j, serving as a knob or handle at its front side, about at the middle, to permit of the convenient manipulation of the said frame in forcing it down to its place upon the interposed or turned-over edge of the bag and in lifting it therefrom in releasing said edge of the bag or sack after filling.

The hinged or pivoted bar bisprovided up on its rear side with aguide-pin or projection. b entering or projecting into the slot 6 of the bar B to effect, as above described, the guiding ofthe movement of the said hinged or pivoted bar, together with the slide 1) and the frames or clasps D D in the adjustment of the same to the bags or sacks to be filled.

The adj ustability of the frames or clasp D D, effected by means of the slide b and the set-screw and nut d d, accommodates the same to bags or sacks of different or variouslengths, while by means of the hinged or pivoted bar 12 the clasp or frames D D, to permit of the convenient or unobstructed tying of the mouths of the bags or sacks after filling, are adapted to be'readily swung over the upper or outer end of the truck, removing the frames or clasp bodily out of the way. Furthermore,when it is desired to use the truck simply as such, the frames or clasp can beentirely removed there from, it only being necessary to remove the set or holding nut d, which permits the slide 6 together with the hinged bar band said frames or clasp, to be displaced and put aside until again wanted.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with the truck having its sides formed in a single piece, the said piece being bent into U shape andhaving the apertured or skeleton form of base or plate secured to the axle end thereof, and the slotted longitudinal central bar, of the adjustable slide carrying a nutted screw passed through the said longitudinal bar, the hinged or pivoted bar, and the clasps orframes secured to said hinged or pivoted bar, substantially as shown and described.

2. In a combined truck and bag-holder, the combination, with the truck having the slotted longitudinal central bar, of the adjustable slide having a nutted screw, the bar hinged or pivoted to said slide, and the relatively fixed and pivoted clasps or frames, substantially as shown and described.

3. The combination, with the adj ustable slide having a nutted screw, the bar hinged orpivoted to said slide, and the fixed and pivoted clasps or frames secured to said bar, of the truck having the central longitudinal slotted bar and the apertured orskeleton form of base or plate secured to the sides of the truck and to the said central bar, substantially as shown and described.

4. The combinatiomwith the slotted central bar of the truck, of the frames or clasps, one being pivoted and the other relatively fixed, the hinged bar carrying said frames or clasps, the slide adjustably connected to said slotted central bar of the truck, said hinged bar also having aguide-pin or projection entering the slot of said central bar, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED O. DODGE.

Witnesses:

W. G. BLYMYER, Ross J. KUHL. 

